Rich Tackenberg has been watching SNL since 1981, and has seen every episode of the show since the season premiere of season 10 in 1984. During the day, Rich is an Executive Recruiter for media and entertainment companies. He writes infrequently at http://therich-fix.com and tweets about SNL @richtack

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I’m like you, Rich, I wanna see Jebediah Atkinson again. He’s one of my favorites, along with the hilarious “What’s up with that?”

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Your grading scale is so low that you give passing grades to anything that is not terrible. Watch the “Late Night with Seth Meyer” show any weeknight and see how it is 100 times better than any of this year’s SNL “Weekend Update”.

As you admit, there are no memorable characters or lasting skits in the entire year. The Trump and Hillary impersonations are terrible. Only Larry David saved SNL from being irrelevant in the most interesting campaign in generations.

The writing is just terrible. Seth Meyers must have stolen any good writers, and SNL has not done any decent jokes that Seth Meyers’ show didn’t already do earlier in the week.

Leslie Jones broke out, but she is so physically unique that she has to be used in only the right situations and not thrown into everything like SNL tries to do. Hopefully Cecily, Keenan, and Bobby will move on to something better. SNL needs all new writers,